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Fielding Graduate Institute - Graduate Certificate - Organizational Development
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About this school
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Fielding Graduate Institute
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Why Fielding?
Quality:
Fielding Graduate Institute has an international reputation for the highest quality accredited graduate degree and certificate degree programs in three schools: Psychology, Human & Organization Development and Educational Leadership & Change. Fielding is renowned for its innovative contributions to academic research, lifelong learning and social justice.
Fielding faculty members are established scholar-practitioners who are devoted to developing collegial relationships with student colleagues to further mutual goals. Our students and alumni are accomplished professionals and mature adults who bring tremendous value to the learning experience.
Flexibility:
Fielding's degree programs are designed for talented, self-directed and socially aware mid-career adults. Because we recognize adults must accommodate work, family and community responsibilities beyond their studies, our degree programs feature flexible schedules and study options within a challenging learning model.
In many degree programs, the curriculum includes components that can be tailored to the student's specific interests and needs. Students are encouraged to take advantage of this flexibility to create a course of study more relevant to their individual goals.
Community:
Fielding maintains a geographically dispersed, yet closely-knit community of scholar-practitioners who value learning, creativity, relationships and respect for individual differences. We are highly skilled at creating communities of varying types—dispersed, regional and online. Fielding is committed to the welfare and success of its students as lifelong learners and as whole persons.
History of Fielding Graduate Institute
Fielding Graduate Institute was founded in March, 1974, in Santa Barbara, California, the realization of the vision of three founders: Frederic Hudson, Hallock Hoffman, and Renata Tesch. The founders, all distinguished higher education administrators and educators, in their capacities as President, Executive Vice-President, and Secretary respectively, each contributed an essential ingredient to the establishing of the Institute. Many other key individuals, through their diligence, hard work, and firm belief in the national need for mid-career professional education, gave substance to the dream.
The founders envisioned a nationally recognized graduate school, which would serve mid-career professionals who wanted to pursue an advanced degree but whose educational and professional objectives could not be met by traditional institutions of higher education. The founders succeeded in their mission. Their success was predicated on two basic, but at the time, rather advanced notions. First, they recognized that changing demographics were altering the nature of U. S. society, and in particular the world of higher education.
More often than not, the founders speculated, students seeking advanced degrees would be mid-career adults who wanted to enhance already well-established academic and professional skills; who, in some cases, would be committed to effecting a mid-life career change; and all of whom, by the nature of their quest for a quality graduate education at mid-life, would be interested in being part of a lifetime-learning community.
Second, the founders realized that adults learn new tasks and accrue knowledge in ways that differ significantly from those of adolescents and young adults. The traditional pedagogical method of education - active teacher, passive learner - would not be appropriate to this new experiment in adult professional education. To accommodate and capitalize upon the learning styles of its student, Fielding developed a rigorous, supportive learning model that today remains flexible, adult-centered, self-directed, task-oriented, and competence-based.
Fielding Graduate Institute's administration and staff are located in Santa Barbara, California. From these buildings, a staff of 70 serves 1,400 students, 1,100 alumni and more than 80 faculty throughout the United States and the world.
Fielding Graduate Institute is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
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